Buying tomatoes at the height of summer is the first step toward getting juicy, flavorful fruit. Follow along as Dan breaks down the science of tomatoes and shows you how to make some of our favorite tomato recipes.
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My Mama made this dish using the leaves of the tomato. she dices protine meats, log beans, wingned beans, squash, tomatoe leaves, bird chilis, pepper leaves(any and all veg & edible leaves) coine all imgrediets add salt&pepper to taste stuff mixture into the neck skin of fowl(chicken,duck,geese etc.) clamp ends and cook in stew along with rest of the fowl adding coconut milk towards the end.
Dan is the best!
Tomatoes were also avoided by the upper classes in much of Europe (West, East, North and South I believe) when they ate from pewter dishes, as the acid in tomatoes would cause lead poisoning.
Crunchy!!!!!
My name is Cherokee Purple, and I share your love of tomatoes. I eat tomato sandwiches 7 days a week from around July through November, and homemade mayonnaise is a must. It's very easy and magnitudes better than jarred. Also homemade bread, but that's another episode!
Wait, tomatoes are a thing?! I thought it was just a weird star system for movies.
He's the better version of Rocco.
I love Steve Dunn's tomato sauce recipe! I've make it many times, and I find it freezes well. Tomatoes are the best!
Great video Dan!
I’m Black Krim 😋
Wow, Wow, Wow, I just made the roasted tomatoes and they are one of the best things I’ve ever tasted! What an incredible way to use up all of my tomatoes! Thank you!
Every day in July and August, I have a tomato sandwich for lunch. Just tomato slices with salt and pepper, toasted sourdough, and Vegenaise. The last of the field grown tomatoes have disappeared and the perfectly fake hothouse tomatoes have reappeared, so it's goodbye to fresh tomatoes until next summer. 🍅🍅🍅
Your videos are great, BUT please no more dad jokes, it's annoying.
Kellogg's Breakfast is like eating sunshine. Love the seasoning recipe!
I tried the cream of tartar mixture on a beautiful but tasteless slice of tomato and it really did make it taste amazing! Will adding cream of tartar to homemade salsa improve the flavor? What if it is then cooked?
Apartment dweller here. I have NEVER wanted a garden as much as I do, in this moment! I would grow tomatoes until the whole garden was one HUGE tomato!!!
Dr. GUNDRY says that tomato seeds and tomato skin are full of lectins— do not eat either if you want to avoid leaky gut.
purple Cherokee
Confused. At 1:42, Dan says sugars increase, etc. Then, he says ethylene gas off the vine doesn't improve flavor???
Thanks! I always learn something from you, even when I think I already know everything 🙂
You are having way too much fun😁🍅!!
Hey "Mr. Stripey", what would roasting, sauteing or frying tomatoes seeds do or taste like?
If I can give this ten likes I would. I always make sauce if I have too many tomatoes but I chop them then cook them then put then through a strainer and they stay red rather than putting them in a blender. The roasted tomato idea is great I love it and can’t wait to do also the cream of tarter idea great! Dan you are refreshing!
Thank you for the awesome tomato 🍅 information and various ways to prepare them 😋
Aren't tomato leaves and vines poisonous? They make my arms itch, break out in a mild rash. Had 30 plants in my last garden until I moved. This year I have 9 heirlooms ripening. Toms are my fave garden produce! Most sungolds don't make it out of the garden 😉
Hey Dan, what are those cute colorful books you have in the background?
Brandywine is my heirloom!. I so regret not keeping my Grandpa's tomato seeds he saved and planted year after year, but the Brandywine is close!
I'm yellow heirloom tomato that never got soft after six weeks :/
The Tomato sandwich is simply mind-blowing!! Such a quick & easy recipe where the ingredients together punch way over their weight. Small twist, instead of cream of tartar, Ranch powder/seasoning also has a good amount of acid and of course the Ranch flavor works well with tomatoes 🙂
I started growing my own tomatoes a few years ago– I am now a total tomato snob. Supermarket tomatoes are rarely good enough for me, although I will spend the extra cash to buy Campari brand (DELICIOUS). I will be trying these simple recipes; I'm eager to try tomato water.
Excellent, informative, thank you
My dream is for Dan to have his own channel, so that I can subscribe to that, without being subjected to the barrage of cringe old-lady content the rest of ATK posts.
I just discovered Dan and actually cooked his Sous Vide Rosemary, Mustard Seed Crusted Roast Beef (I had a chuck roast in the freezer and thought, what the heck). It wasn't as perfect looking as the one on the show but Dear God, that was the best chuckroast I have ever had. The yogurt sauce took the whole thing to another level. I served it with mash tates and steamed asparagus and pared it with a choice of chardonnay, merlot or a Pilsner. Just Subscribed and now going through all the back videos here and on the test kitchen.
I love German Johnson’s for sandwiches. Here in NC they are a favorite. When I lived in Florida I couldn’t find a good tomato.
now wait a minute, Alton Brown, or Good Eats fame, says that tomatoes only ripen on the vine, and just turn red, off the vine: what's up?
I made the griddled tomato sandwich and it is absolutely a must-try! It was so much more flavourful than I expected considering it has so few ingredients. Thanks for this recipe 🙂
I save every ounce of the tomato jelly now because of you and make sure I don’t lose most it on my Woden cutting board
Roasted tomatoes on EVERYTHING, I always have some on hand
Loaded with Lectins, very bad for most people and is one of the major causes of leaky gut problems . Unless you peel and de-seed them . And that goes for All of the Nightshade family.
Holy goodness that tomato sandwich recipe is the best sandwich I've had in a long long time
And what do you do with picked tomatoes that ripen overnight and are now going wrinkly? That's the reality of weekend tomato gardeners who work during the week. So I should have refrig'd them, but didn't. Now what.
Heinz has too much salt
All these years I’ve been throwing away tomato water, I didn’t know it was any good!
the only great tomato sauce starts with authentic Marzano tomatoes
I like this video/presentation format very much!
But. This video on tomatoes feels just an itty-bitty hasty & it could have had even more crucial hints and recipes. What about tomatoes and garlic “cooperation”? Bruschetta? Tomatoes and alcohol. Etc.
I just love Dan's subtle humor and very helpful tips..I am free to work with you Dan 😀
So, I don't know if I just Mandela Effected my way here from an alternate universe, but… aren't tomato leaves poisonous? Isn't that tomato sauce recipe a literal recipe for disaster?